Senior Network Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Network Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Network Engineer daily rate in London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 350 431
Rank change year-on-year +2 +81 +111
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Network Engineer 24 35 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 18 23
10th Percentile £423 £200 £439
25th Percentile £494 £391 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £521 £560
Median % change year-on-year +7.91% -6.92% +7.18%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £595
90th Percentile £675 £640 £650
England median daily rate £525 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £69.75
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.37% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 12,716 15,652 23,327
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.06% 94.26% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,606 11,145 17,079
10th Percentile £331 £340 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.23% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 233 259
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £18.54
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.00 £23.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.29 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% -18.09% +15.47%
75th Percentile £50.25 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £71.25 £82.30
England median hourly rate £26.30 £43.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -38.84% -1.96% +70.79%

Senior Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Network Engineer in London

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in London

Senior Network Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in London over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Network Engineer in London

Senior Network Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Network Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Network Engineer in London

Senior Network Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Network Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 26 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +2 3 £425 -19.24% 1
East London +13 1 £675 +237.50%
West London -1 1 £240 -36.13% 2
Senior Network Engineer
England

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 26 July 2025, Senior Network Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Network Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (66.67%) Cisco
2 12 (50.00%) Firewall
3 10 (41.67%) Finance
3 10 (41.67%) BGP
3 10 (41.67%) WAN
3 10 (41.67%) Python
3 10 (41.67%) Ansible
4 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (37.50%) Data Centre
4 9 (37.50%) Arista
5 8 (33.33%) OSPF
6 7 (29.17%) CCNP
6 7 (29.17%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (29.17%) F5
6 7 (29.17%) Fortinet
7 6 (25.00%) Azure
7 6 (25.00%) Low Latency
7 6 (25.00%) CheckPoint
7 6 (25.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
8 5 (20.83%) DevOps
8 5 (20.83%) CCIE
8 5 (20.83%) MPLS
8 5 (20.83%) Network Monitoring
8 5 (20.83%) Multicast
8 5 (20.83%) AWS
8 5 (20.83%) Network Security
9 4 (16.67%) Git
9 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (16.67%) LAN

Senior Network Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) AWS Direct Connect
3 1 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) Firewall
2 10 (41.67%) BGP
2 10 (41.67%) WAN
3 8 (33.33%) OSPF
4 7 (29.17%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (25.00%) SD-WAN
6 5 (20.83%) MPLS
6 5 (20.83%) Multicast
6 5 (20.83%) Network Security
7 4 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (16.67%) LAN
7 4 (16.67%) VXLAN
8 3 (12.50%) DNS
8 3 (12.50%) Ethernet
8 3 (12.50%) VPN
8 3 (12.50%) Wireless
9 2 (8.33%) DWDM
9 2 (8.33%) IGMP
9 2 (8.33%) SNMP
9 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Git
1 4 (16.67%) GitLab
1 4 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Advertising
5 1 (4.17%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) JSON
2 2 (8.33%) Jinja
3 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
3 1 (4.17%) gRPC
3 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) FPGA
3 1 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) PCIe
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Verilog
3 1 (4.17%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 5 (20.83%) DevOps
2 5 (20.83%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (16.67%) Observability
3 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (12.50%) Agile
4 3 (12.50%) Change Control
4 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 3 (12.50%) ITIL
5 2 (8.33%) Change Management
5 2 (8.33%) Coaching
5 2 (8.33%) High-Frequency Trading
5 2 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 2 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (8.33%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (8.33%) Predictive Analysis
5 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) SystemVerilog
2 1 (4.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (29.17%) CCNP
3 5 (20.83%) CCIE
4 2 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.17%) CWNA
5 1 (4.17%) JNCIA
5 1 (4.17%) JNCIE
5 1 (4.17%) JNCIS
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) FreeRADIUS
1 1 (4.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 10 (41.67%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Nagios
4 1 (4.17%) Cacti
4 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Netcool
4 1 (4.17%) OpenView
4 1 (4.17%) OPNET
4 1 (4.17%) Proxmox
4 1 (4.17%) Puppet
4 1 (4.17%) Tivoli
4 1 (4.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Cisco
2 9 (37.50%) Arista
3 7 (29.17%) F5
3 7 (29.17%) Fortinet
4 6 (25.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (12.50%) Juniper
5 3 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 3 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 3 (12.50%) VMware
6 2 (8.33%) Meraki
6 2 (8.33%) Zscaler
7 1 (4.17%) AirMagnet
7 1 (4.17%) Aruba
7 1 (4.17%) Brocade
7 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
7 1 (4.17%) Nokia
7 1 (4.17%) Riverbed
7 1 (4.17%) Splunk
7 1 (4.17%) Tufin
7 1 (4.17%) Xilinx